Sum~sum~summertime!

Hello...it's me....Murphy!   But you must now know that it's always going to be me.....


Summertime is here for me and my humans!   My furfriends too!    And......this Friday, me and my siblings are turning seven months old!    I'm growing up to be a very pretty girl.   So I'm told.
Some say I look like my momma, Roo.   Others who have seen pictures of my daddy, River, say I look like him.   No matter who I look like......I'm Murphy!    And I love being me!


I am taking another training break until September.   Then I can work with my group again so I can be a good K-9 citizen.  Keeping my paws crossed, it's on to therapy training.  

While I'm taking a break from training and my Forever Human is taking a break from school, we are having a lot of fun together!    I sometimes get to walk her to swim practice in the mornings, and then after she is finished being a Piranha, that's her swim team name my humans take me swimming.   Sometimes we go to the resevoir, but the man with the badge on his shirt looks at Pack Leader with a growl on his face.   Pack Leader smiles back and tells the man with the badge on his shirt, "she just can't get enough of water!".     He walks away.
  

No one ever said three's a crowd!   It's a pawty!

My furfriend Gunner ~ from class.  He likes to run fast!

I'm patiently waiting for my Uber driver to open the car door.

That Uber driver happens to be Pack Leader - BOL!

My humans are taking me to Deep Creek Lake where dogs are welcome to be there all the time all year round!   No cats.  Only dogs!    BOL!

I can swim, jump off a low dock into the blue water.  I can go on the boat and even snorkel with my Forever Human.  But I won't need a snorkel, because I enjoy blowing bubbles in my water bowl, so I have lots of practice!  And boy, do I ever get in trouble because I make the kitchen floor a mess!  Pack Leader said she's going to train me to drink from a straw!  

Love Giver planned a hiking trip in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.  I'll be able to jump in the stream and splash around in the Shenandoah River.
And our last trip is in September to the Outer Banks!  More dog friendly places!!!!

Have you noticed all of our trips include WATER!

Can't wait for my our water trips!  I'm so sad Sassy Cat won't be able to join us.....but she just hisses at me and then womps me on the head with her teeny little paws.   She's sooooo sassy!

Until next time,
A big bark out to my siblings.....Cash,Ellie-Roo,Piper,Lola & Belle!

Woofs!

Murphy

A Dog with a Purpose

Hi there...it's me....Murphy!

While I was exploring the living room, my nose found a large pile of books.   My nose found a book called "A Dog's Purpose".   My mouth pulled it out of the pile - and while I was chewing paging through this book about a puppy who becomes many different dogs during it's cycle of life, I now know why humans read such books that make their eyes leak.

I think my purpose in life is to be Forever Humans best friend.   I live in the moment to make you feel my unconditional love.  Even while I'm chewing paging through your books that you forgot to put in a safe place - away from my large pearly white teeth......my purpose is to make you happy.    I think my purpose in life is to get as much and give as much love as I can to Love Giver.   I give him the most sloppy kisses!   Even though I now weigh 50 pounds...Love Giver picks me up so I can get closer to his chin.  He tells me that I'm a good girl and such a pretty girl too.   My heart nearly pounds right out of my golden chest!  I think my purpose is to make his day when he comes home from a long night at the office....I wait eagerly as he puts down his briefcase.....then I sit and I wiggle in my skin for him to say "okay Murphy".   He smiles and will ask "who's my girl?"   I am!  Murphy!

I think my purpose is to teach humans how to laugh.  To be responsible.  To show love and to be loved.   I think my purpose is to one day help people find their lost smile.

  I think my purpose is to enjoy my life and your life.

I think my purpose is to grow in your heart as I grow in age.   To give you unconditional love no matter what kind of day you had.  Or the kind of day I had.    I think my purpose is to go to sleep happy and wake up happy.  To eat and sleep again.  I think my purpose is to retrieve as many tennis balls as possible.  Our lives are too short not to break rules - so far, I've collected over 74 tennis balls.  My purpose for this is to share with my best friends at the dog park.   okay, so I'm working on that.   I think my purpose in life is to swim like no other dog.   To become one with the water.   To find my inner otter.  I think my purpose in life is to pee and poo as many times a day as it comes to my mind.  And if I am distracted by a squirrel or an air bus please give me extra time to sniff out a new spot.  This is my purpose.  I think.

I think my purpose in life is to be a dog.  Just that.  This is all I know.  And because I'm a dog I have everything you need.  The tail that can't stop wagging because you are home.  Or...you're out of the bathroom.  I don't know that I'm knocking over coffee cups.  I don't know the price of those shoes or the ugly antique.   Because my purpose is to be your dog.  I think my purpose may be to chew retrieve your flip-flops.   Because my purpose is to be your dog - and that means my purpose is to make you laugh.   To make you happy.  To make you proud.   And to love you like no other dog in your life has ever loved you.   That just may be my purpose.

I think my purpose is to slow you down or to make you go faster.   No matter how slow or fast we go....my purpose is to be with you.   My purpose in life is to be by your feet.  To be on your bed. 
To add extra hair on your clothes. 

I think my purpose in life is to just be me.   I like me.
I'm a happy dog.  

That is my purpose.



Woofs,
Murphy